Enamel

Quick meaning: Enamel is a noun meaning An opaque, glassy coating baked onto metal or ceramic objects.

Meaning

An opaque, glassy coating baked onto metal or ceramic objects.

More Meanings

1. A coating that dries to a hard, glossy finish.
2. The hard covering on the exposed part of a tooth.
3. A cosmetic intended to give the appearance of a smooth and beautiful complexion.
4. (transitive) To coat or decorate with enamel.
5. (transitive) To variegate with colours, as if with enamel.
6. (transitive) To form a glossy surface like enamel upon.
7. (transitive) To disguise with cosmetics, as a woman's complexion.

Example Sentences

to enamel card paper; to enamel leather or cloth

Oft he [the serpent] bowed / His turret crest and sleek enamelled neck.

Against the fence, in a line, were six chipped-enamel slop jars holding brilliant red geraniums, cared for as tenderly as if they belonged to Miss Maudie Atkinson

Their plumed helmes are wrought with beaten golde, Their ſwords enameld, and about their neckes Hangs maſſie chaines of golde downe to the waſte, In euery part exceding braue and rich.

Word Forms

• enamels
• enameling
• enamelling
• enameled
• enamelled

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